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Computational neuroscience of reinforcement learning and decision making
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Caroline may regret not exploring her calling as a baker, but you should definitely explore this paper! The first one from our big aging and decision making study.

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Are you feeling stuck in your ways? Less excited about exploring anything new? You may be aging! Read on for insight into why your decision making is changing.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Can we think aloud without disrupting stream of #consciousness? Two studies (Ns > 100) extended our results suggesting that we can — this time for DOZENS of aspects of thought! Scientists are running out of good reasons to not use #thinkAloud protocols: doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

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Happy head direction cell day y’all! On this day, 41 years ago, Jim Ranck recorded the first “HD cell” in his Brooklyn lab in 1984. Jim shared the news with the world at SFN that year, showing a video of the cell’s firing on a TV he somehow acquired and brought to his poster… (1/3)

submitted 43 days ago • 4 comments

Really interesting data - can see a COVID-related spike in project grant submissions in 2021, also a dip after the financial crisis in 2008. But what happened from 2002 to 2004 to cause the boom in applications? We thought it might be changes to the page limit (25 to 12), but that was 2010.

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This definitely stings ... I wonder how many other areas of psychology this applies to (very much including my own research).

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

interesting! my sense with the MF measures is they tend to have nicer distributions (in part because they are bounded between 0 and 1). I'd be curious if MF measures do better in your dataset or not. The non-correlation with self-report is so interesting though!

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If you're having trouble sleeping, this can probably help ...

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